Thursday, February 7, 2013

Why Can't We Have That "A" Word Debate?

I have always been baffled about why we can't talk about abortion in Canada. They have no problem in other countries discussion this issue like in the United States where the "A" word debate is on going and all sides are free to speak. Why is it so taboo here? Why is it the attempt to always censor those especially on the pro-life side?

Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition, has
written to the mayor of Abbotsford demanding the city order the private
landowner to take them down. "Many women having abortions are
not Christian and would find it doubly offensive to have their abortion
represented by a cross."So, because Arthur thinks someone could be offended, the city ought to tear down the crosses.The silent monument is a "misappropriation of a woman's private experience that is absolutely no one's business."So,
in the name of a fake privacy violation and the counterfeit human right
not to be offended, Arthur demands the government should violate the
real privacy and property rights of a landowner, as well as his freedom
of speech.This is not a debate about abortion. It's a debate
about whether we're allowed to have a debate about abortion. It's the
censorship of the discussion itself.

Ezra also suggests that there needs to be a change in the culture and we need to making it cool to go through a pregnancy if changes are to be made.

We need to change the culture - to make going through with a pregnancy
as socially fashionable as abortions have been made; to make adoptions
easier; to bring back a culture of sex and life, to counter the culture
of sex and death. That's a discussion Joyce Arthur wants to stop.

I agree. The culture in this country we've had, for the last forty some odd years been pro-abortion (or a culture of death is what I call it.) As long as our culture is like that it is going to be an uphill battle for pro-lifers to get change in our legislation but we need to press on.

I just want to say thank you to Ezra Levant, Michael Coren, Brian Lilley and others at Sunnews discussing a subject that others refuse to.